Here is our challenge to ourselves (that we will probably regret by around the 12th December)… one Christmas themed post every day from now until Christmas Day…
Opening the first little door, we kick off with Sunderland…
Frightening children in the Sunderland area into being good in time for Christmas 1983 was a thinly disguised Alan Durban ‘Santa’.
Sadly for this fake-Father Christmas, he got the errrr… ‘sack’ just three months later.
You’d better be good for goodness sake, if you want the retro-footy-grumble-fest ‘Got, Not Got’… runner-up in this year’s Footy Book of the Year, in your Christmas stocking (pillow case).
Available from branches of WH Smith and Waterstones or online here…
